Democratic congressional candidate Maureen Galindo is once more stirring up controversy, this time for saying her runoff opponent, former Bexar County Sheriff’s Division spokesman Johnny Garcia, ought to be tried for treason.
“[Immigration and Customs Enforcement] is once more a part of [the Department of Homeland Security], which has headquarters and places of work inside Israel,” Galindo stated on Texas Public Radio’s The Supply with David Martin Davies.
“That is an Israeli occupation of America,” the candidate for San Antonio’s thirty fifth Congressional District continued. “Actually, I used to be pondering this morning, perhaps Johnny Garcia and others who help him, or anyone who’s supported by Israel, ought to be tried for treason.”
For reference, ICE is headquartered in Washington, D.C. And, whereas the company has two places of work in Israel, they’re positioned throughout the U.S. diplomatic amenities, as is frequent in different U.S. diplomatic outposts.
A bewildered Davies tried to reply earlier than Galindo lower him off, warning that Israel might be planning genocide in the USA. She didn’t elaborate on how that may come about.
Garcia, who was additionally on The Supply on Wednesday, dismissed Galindo’s assertion that he ought to be tried for treason or that he’s managed by Israel.
“I believe she’s drawing these baseless claims from the group referred to as AIPAC Tracker that put us on that web site after the endorsement of the Democratic majority for Israel,” Garcia stated.
AIPAC (the American Israel Public Affairs Committee) is an advocacy group that lobbies the U.S. authorities to strengthen its ties with Israel.
“We haven’t taken any cash from AIPAC,” Garcia added. “My points are ensuring that our neighborhood stays protected, that we fight antisemitic remarks like we’ve seen my opponent make.”
Certainly, New York Occasions columnist Michelle Goldberg referred to as out Galindo over the weekend for remarks in a Fb video the place she claimed “Jews … personal Hollywood” and are utilizing their affect to take over the world and produce in regards to the Rapture.
As an alternative of apologizing, Galindo has doubled down on her views this week, accusing Garcia, in remarks to the Present, of collaborating with “Billionaire Zionist Jews.” She additionally accused those self same billionaires of working a human trafficking community in Bexar County.
Galindo and a few of her supporters keep that her most up-to-date remarks aren’t antisemitic as a result of she’s concentrating on Zionists — or those that imagine that Jews are entitled to a sovereign ethno-state — not Jewish folks typically.
The Jewish Federation of San Antonio, in a press release this week, disagreed, stating that Galindo is peddling antisemitic tropes and conspiracies underneath the guise of anti-Zionism.
“Divisive and hateful rhetoric concentrating on the Jewish neighborhood has no place in our civic life,” the group stated. “San Antonio is a vibrant and numerous neighborhood, and an assault on any group is an assault on us all. We name on all candidates and elected officers to have interaction in significant dialogue with the neighborhood and chorus from bigoted and offensive assaults.”
Early voting within the Texas Democratic runoff begins Could 18, with Election Day on Could 26. Voting info is offered on the Bexar County Elections Division’s web site.
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